28 December 2020
First piece of the Chinese Space Station is set to launch in 2021
... plans to launch the core module of its crewed space station in the first half of 2021, a senior official said Friday. Discussing details of the launch at a handover ceremony in Shaoshan, central China's Hunan Province, Zhou Jianping, chief designer...
May 2022
China’s international collaboration in space: an evolving approach from the Middle Kingdom
... Mars mission which included an orbiter, lander and rover. And in the early 2020s China has deployed its long-term space station, the China Space Station (CSS), with impressive efficiency. Later in 2022, the CSS will increase its capacity...
28 April 2021
First piece of China's space station expected to launch this week
...will form a T-shaped structure that can house a total of six astronauts on stays of up to six months. China is aiming to have its space station fully operational by next year and its expected lifetime is around 15 years, the programme’s planners have...
14 June 2019
First experiments on Chinese Space Station announced
..., and researching and testing of the next generation of cooling systems for space applications. These will all take up residence on the China Space Station (CSS), which in its basic configuration, consists of a Core Module (CM), an Experiment Module...
16 April 2020
China in Space
... covers everything from satellite applications to launch vehicle development, while focusing on “China’s biggest space construction project” - the China Space Station - and the nation’s “ever-expanding ambitions across the solar system”. Although...
July 2021
Collaboration and competition in lunar exploration
... in LEO and has recently launched the Tianhe core module of the China Space Station (CSS). Driven by these ambitious goals, government investment in space exploration will continue to increase to about $30 billion by 2029, according to Euroconsult...
